Kassette / Night School Records / 2013
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Twisting around the compartments of the listener's mind in
ever-revolving perpetuity, the eternal evidenced in Ferric tape, Molly
Nilsson's "The Travels" arrives in glorious cassette manifestation.
Featuring exclusive artwork calibrated to induce an internal
locked-groove, each life-affirming, hypnotic moment on "The Travels" is
able to be played back forever, winding around the space between
receiver and conceiver, both agents mutually embraced in a passionate
struggle bereft of malignity. Dear Life, you felt so close.
Journeys offer change - the possibility of renewal - and accordingly
on The Travels Molly Nilsson’s resonant voice is found curling around a
new sense of optimism and wide-eyed discovery that was only alluded to
in her previous work. Songs like “Dear Life” might be spiked with a
barbed sense of the dejected, but the presiding feeling is one of
optimism, of being in love with life despite a shield of cynicism.
“Dirty Fingers” brings a melancholy recognisable from previous work but
with an incessant beat and ecstatic underpinning it becomes apparent
that a new force is at play here. In case the listener missed it, “The
Power Ballad” brings an endearing, sincerity to proceedings that also
offers a tantalising question: can you be sceptical about love but still
be bewitched?
On her 5th long-player, Nilsson’s perspective is challenged and
manipulated by changes in environment and psychological space: like any
other traveller the protagonist brings their own set of values and
emotional states and new places, colouring them with a wash of
subjectivity. Like any other traveller Molly Nilsson reacts to her
environment and shares her unique version of it to other people.